People ask "How can I possibly be *selfish* to put my own needs before the needs of children who don't exist? How is it selfish to think they're better off not existing than existing in a bad situation?" They don't care about you or the kids They speak with the voice of Moloch
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Breeding cult mentality doesn't think of the welfare of individual humans, or even the aggregated welfare of humans as a group It's loyalty to an abstraction - to Capital, to the United States, to the Global Economy, to the Human Race, to Putting a Human Footprint on Mars etc
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It's a goddamn false god that cares only about its own abstract glory - fecundity enough to fill the universe with human bodies and build shopping malls and parking lots as a monument to its power And its priests see you and your children as only fuel to burn in its belly
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(I feel the need to wax effulgent with the purple prose here because, well, the cultural conservative side of this argument has tons of purple prose on their side and they deploy it ruthlessly)
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("You come from a chain of ancestors, a bloodline lasting thousands of years, and you're going to let it sputter to a halt to do what? Backpack through Europe? Play video games? Spend 40 years 'finding yourself' and die?" Such arguments still do succeed in making me feel bad)
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I struggle with a "if I am minded to do things for the good of society, making more people is a thing I should do" guilt but a)I am not in any state to raise any children to be benefits into society. b)I got enough personal failings to make babymaking purely hypothetical
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Wild to me that people respond to my saying "I dislike everything that comes with being around children and I don't want to spend years caring for them" with "you won't know until you try!" Like, how tf am *I* selfish when you think I should create a human to test your theory?
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Literally the only options for a declining birth rate are 1)Workers get more bargaining power, 2)They pass multiple massive social safety net programs like free childcare, etc to encourage people to have them, or 3)Flood the market with brown people from the third world.
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